So every single youtube video you have ever watched- logged with the time you started the video, how many times you have viewed it. Add to this your IP address. All gifted to a mega-corporation. The judge scoffing at the idea that this is a breach of privacy... I'm so fucking sick of all this doublespeak.

Slavery does NOT equal freedom.

Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube - News and Analysis by PC Magazine


Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube

07.03.08


by Chloe Albanesius

Should Viacom be privy to the fact that you've watched "Cat Playing Piano" 57 times on YouTube since March?

Yes, according to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York. Judge Louis Stanton on Wednesday ruled that Google must provide Viacom with YouTube user histories in Viacom's ongoing $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the video Web site.

Google must hand over all the information contained in its logging database, including the login ID of the users who have watched videos, the time they started to watch the video, users' IP address, and the video identifier.

Viacom claims that it must have access to the entire database in order to see whether users are watching infringing videos more than they are watching non-infringing content. If they are watching more videos with copyrighted data that might prove that Google had an incentive to keep them live on YouTube and did not actively work to remove them, according to Viacom.

Google balked at the request. Turning over the data – about 12 terabytes – would be time consuming, expensive, and a violation of user privacy, the company argued.

The court dismissed the notion that turning over the information was too burdensome since "all of its contents can be copied onto a few 'over-the-shelf' four-terabyte hard drives," Judge Stanton wrote.

The judge was also skeptical that the data contained in YouTube's logging database would allow Viacom access to personally identifiable user information.

Google's own musings on the subject of IP address privacy were actually used against them, with Judge Stanton pointing to a Google Public Policy blog post from February that said "IP addresses recorded by every Web site on the planet without additional information should not be considered personal data, because these Web sites usually cannot identify the human beings behind these number strings."

The court "erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users," Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued in a blog post.

The VPPA was passed in 1988 after the video rental history of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork was published in a newspaper during his nomination process. Congress found that the videos one chooses to watch is deeply personal and should not be made public without permission.

Arguing that the logging database does not contain personally identfiable information is insufficient, Opsahl said.

"If any single one of the YouTube users in the Logging database picked a login ID that does identify that user (i.e. if my YouTube login was kurtopsahl), then the logging database' information about viewing habits is protected by the VPPA, even if others pick anonymous pseudonyms," Opsahl said. Next: What Viacom Doesn't Get

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RIP Josh.. you should never have been in Afghanistan to begin with.. FUCK YOU GOVERNMENT FOR TAKING SOMEONE FROM ME WHO WAS CONVINCED THEY WERE BEING PATRIOTIC AND PROMOTING GOODNESS IN THE WORLD.

Thats fucked up! Holy shit, now Viacom is going to know that Im obsessed with watching "drunk redneck" and "redneck fireworks" videos

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Oh no they are going to see that I watched the hamster eating the broccoli and the dramatic chipmunk a total of 867324623 times. Shit.

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Who cares. I bet 99.99% of people are on a dynamic ip. no way could they keep a log of who had each ip, too much data.

Its still a violation of our privacy, If I wanted people to know what I was doing online Id set up a webcam and start a site. But what I do online is very private, this site for example, and I dont want that kinda info out there.

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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

A lot of people scoff at the whiff of fascism that truly underlies this latest. But I don't. At first blush it seems silly that "they" might know that I do searches on "tortoise" then gravitate towards the aggressive ones. But that's not really the point, is it?

If they want to control all of us, they must control the information. The internet will not be left alone.

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Ron Paul doesn't deliver babies.
He reads them the Bill of Rights until they crawl their way to freedom!

"Control the information and you control the world" I can't remember who said it but it seems like a truism. The commies are comming, the commies are comming!

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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

They wouldn't be comming if they weren't really Commies, now would they? But fascism wears more faces than that.

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Ron Paul doesn't deliver babies.
He reads them the Bill of Rights until they crawl their way to freedom!

shocked? sadly no.
The age of internet freedom is gone.
Can't use a cell phone, home phone or internet without being tracked.
Can't drive anywhere or walk down a city street without somekind of cam watching you.Can't fly or leave the country without being tracked like a homing pigeon.
wow, are things all fucked up and it's only gona get worse.
Our grandkids are going to think we were free as birds.


I let this happen on my watch, I'm to blame....yes, you are!!

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Sucker tried to play me,But you never paid me, Neva,Payback is a' comingYou will be runnin', foreva,Until i get me vengeance,I will never end this mayhem,I'm a mercenary,You ain't got a prayer, you owe MEEEEEE